Fly-trap.



No. 866,879. PATENTED SEPT. 24, 1907.

G. G. McGEE.

FLY TRAP.

APPLICATION FILED I'EB.18, 1907.

l/Witnesses UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GUY C. McGEE, OF IRONTON, COLORADO, ASSIGNOR OF'ONE-FOURTH TO A. G.BRUNER, OF IRONTON, COLORADO.

FLY-TRAP.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 24, 1907.

Application filed February 18, 1907. Serial No. 357.960.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GUY C. MCGEE, a citizen of the United States,residing at Ironton, in the county of Ouray, State of Colorado, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Fly-Traps; and I dohereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact descriptionof the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to whichit appertains to make and use the same.

This invention has relation to that class of fly-traps in which anendless traveling belt is employed to attract the flies to alightthereon and by which they. are carried into a chamber where they aretrapped and destroyed.

It is the object of my invention to provide an improved constructionthat will, in the first place, be simple in construction and mode of useand economical of manufacture, and that will be enhanced in efficiencyand readiness of employment.

The nature of the invention may be ascertained from an inspection of thedevice portrayed in the annexed drawings, forming a part of thisapplication, in view of which it will first be described in detail withrespect to its construction and mode of operation and then bespecifically pointed out in the claims.

Of the said drawings*-Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved flytrap. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional elevation.

Similar numerals of reference designate similar parts or features, asthe case may be, whenever they occur.

In the drawings, a designates a table-like support having legs 1) uponwhich is arranged a cage 0 of wire netting having an opening d at itsbottom and a similar opening at its top.

f designates a chamber composed of tin or sheet metal and like the cage0 resting upon the table a. The

chamber f is divided by an inclined partition 9 which may be made ofperforated tin or other foraminous metal and extends from the lower edgeof the opening 6 down to near the other side of the chamber f at itsbottom. In the chamber f between the point where the inclined partitiong is connected therewith there is formed an opening h for the receptionof a drawer j, having a handle '6 by which it may be manipulated.

Above the chamber f there is a wire cage is which is adapted to becovered on its top and sides by a casing of tin or other suitable metalZ, said covering and casing being adapted to slide up and down on astrip m secured to the inner side of the chamber f and extending uptherefrom so that the covering and casing 1 may be raised or loweredover the cage 70 in order to afford greater or less outlet for gas orair from the chamber f.

n designates an endless traveling belt formed from fly paper or othermaterial adapted to attract flies thereon, which belt extends around apulley 0 inside of the cage 0 and around another pulley go outside ofthe cage 0 the said pulley being adapted to be supported so as to turnin bearings secured to the leg of the table. It is proposed to employmeans for operating the pulley p on its shaft so that the belt may berendered a continuously traveling device. As a means for operating thepulley p, I may employ an ordinary clock mechanism, as shown by dottedlines, at a, in Fig. 1 or an electric motor or indeed it may be operatedby hand or any other suitable means, this feature forming no part of myinvention.

In use, the upper portion of the belt traveling in the directionindicated by the arrow will carry any flies that light upon the upperside of the belt n through the opening (2 into the cage 0 and aftergetting inside of the latter they will be disturbed as the belt turnsover the pulley 0 so as to fly upward in said cage and enter thecompartment 2 of the chamber f and once therein, though they may fly upinto the cage 70 they will not be likely to escape back into the cage 0but will be suffocated by fumes of burning sulfur in a casing g in thecompartment 3 of the chamber f, the fumes rising through the opening inthe slanting partition 9 and after the flies are suffocated, they falldown upon said inclined partition into the drawer j from whence they maybe removed by pulling out said drawer and opening it.

In use my invention is most efiicient, while at the same time beingsimple in and economic of construction.

What is claimed is- 1. A fly-trap comprising a cage of woven wire havingan opening at its bottom, a closed chamber having a top adapted to admitlight therethrough, the said cage having an opening at its topcommunicating with the closed chamber, and the latter chamber beingprovided with a diagonally extended foraminous partition, and an endlesstraveling belt having a part extended through the said opening at thebottom of the cage.

2. A fiy-trap comprising a cage of woven wire having an opening at thebottom, a closed chamber having an opening at its top communicating withthe wire cage and provided with a diagonally extended foraminouspartition, 3. drawer in the lower part of the chamber, and a wire cageon top of the chamber having an adjustable close cover, and an endlesstraveling-belt having a portion thereof extended into the firstmentioned cage through the opening at its bottom.

In testimony whereof, I affix my signature, in presence of twowitnesses.

GUY C. McGEE.

Witnesses A. G. BRUNER, C. F. OLSON.

